Noise in the helical edge channel anisotropically coupled to a local spin
Abstract
We calculate the frequency-dependent shot noise in the edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator coupled to a magnetic impurity with spin of arbitrary anisotropy. If the anisotropy is absent, the noise is purely thermal at low frequencies, but tends to the Poissonian noise of the full current at high frequencies. If the interaction only flips the impurity spin but conserves those of electrons, the noise at high voltages is frequency-independent. Both the noise and the backscattering current saturate at voltage-independent values. Finally, if the Hamiltonian contains all types of non-spin-conserving scattering, the noise at high voltages becomes frequency-dependent again. At low frequencies, its ratio to is larger than 1 and may reach 2 in the limit . At high frequencies it tends to 1.
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@article{arxiv.1810.05831,
title = {Noise in the helical edge channel anisotropically coupled to a local spin},
author = {K. E. Nagaev and S. V. Remizov and D. S. Shapiro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05831},
year = {2019}
}
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5 pages, 2 figs